Detaching device



June 17, 1924 C. F. HUDGINS.

-- DETACHING DEVICE Filfld May 25 1923 Patented June 1924.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES F. HU'ZDGINS, OF NORFOLK, VIRGINIA.

DETACHING DEVICE.

Application filed May 23,

, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to detaching devices to be used for facilitatingthe preparation for launching life boats from vessels and fordisengaging and removing the covers and retaining means ordinarilyemployed for protecting and securing the boats to the decks of vessels.

My invention is an improvement upon a Letters Patent issued to me onSeptember 6, 1909, and numbered 969,628 for fastening for life boatcovers.

My present invention provides forthe use of a spring and adapts thedevice for any purpose where a holding means is desired which may bequickly detached when required.

Further objects and advantages will be more fully described herein andspecifically pointed out in the claims hereunto annexed recourse beinghad to the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification inwhich:

Figure 1 is a side view of my improved detaching apparatus in a lockedor holding position.

Figure 2 is a plan of the same.

Figure 3 is a bottom plan showing the spring in place on the plateport-ion.

Figure 1 is an end View.

Figures 5 and 6 are side views of a modified form of shackle.

Figure 7 is a plan of the plate or flat spring.

In the drawing like reference numerals indicate similar parts in all theseveral views.

1 is the plate or body portion having a flat form in cross section andis provided with a reduced portion or neck 2 upon the extremity of whichan enlongated ringor eye 3 is formed for passing a rope or lashingtherethrough.

4: is a hole near the opposite end of the plate 1 for hingedlypositioning the latch iod 5 which is normally horizontal, as shown, andis provided with a bent or offset end at right angles to the shank ofthe rod and is bent into an eye 6 through the end of the plate so thatthe rod 5 may be swungin a 1923. Serial No. 640,958.

semi-circle after being released by the shackle 7, as indicated. inFigure 1.

The loop or bow of the shackle 7 is indicated by the numeral 7, and itsfree ends, by the numeral 8, the latter being square at the bottomsurfaces upon which the spring 11 presses.

9 is a pin for movably fitting the shackle upon the sides of the plate1.

10 is a hole in the upper portion of the shackle bow 7 for a lanyard forpulling the same to the left and releasing the latch rod 5.

11 is the leaf or plate spring fastened by the screws 12 passing throughthe orifices 11, (Figure 7), to the bottom of the plate 1. The spring isput in tension when the shackle portions 8 are moved and locks theshackle in a vertical position or nearly horizontal, as indicated by thedotted lines below v the numeral 17 in Figure 1.

In Figures 5 and. 6 I show a modified form of shackle in which there areangularly disposed flatsurfaceslS and 1 1 for engagement with the spring11 for two positions of the shackle, as shown.

.16 is a suitable rope or lashing secured to the eye 3 and 15 is asimilar rope attached to the object to be released when the shackle ispulled to the left by the lanyard 17 which allows the rod 5 to fall andeffect a release.

My invention is cheap to manufacture, is effective in operation and maybe used upon shipboard or elsewhere for quickly detaching an object fromits fastenings.

I claim:

1. In a detaching device, a flat perforated plate member, a hinged latchrod thereon, shackle holding and releasingnieans therefor bent throughthe perforation and around one end of the plate, and spring meansadapted to press upon two flat surfaces of the shackle forlocking thesame in a holding and releasing position.

2. In a detaching device, a perforated plate member having a hingedlocking rod at one end thereof bent into an eye through the perforation,a shackle near the opposite end having two flat portions and positionedastride the plate, a sprin adapted'to bear upon said flat portions tolock the shackle in a position of release and to confine the end ofsaid. latch rod.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my signature.

CHARLES r. HUDGINS.

